Dinner Again 2

Fuck registration. Fuck confiscation. I live in Texas. Both registration and confiscation would be really, really hard to enact here. Guns are simply part of Texas. Even us moderate Liberal Texans have a slew of guns.

The thing is, law-abiding gun owners are law-abiding. Sounds obvious, but for many people, myself included, it would take a very sharp change in mindset to consciously commit a felony that could lead to hard prison time and/or loss of their Second Amendment rights altogether. There’s also the hope that “this is where it stops”. Unfortunately appeasement never works.

Yeah i’m waiting for the confiscation to come to my state. Really hit home when I read an article a few days ago by the local paper that has an ongoing war with gun owners, final paragraph kinda sent chills down my neck

“Meanwhile, state police have refused to release statistical information about the number of new pistol permits in New York or how many assault weapons have been registered under the law. The agency claims the information is not public because it is being used in an eventual statewide gun-registration database, which is kept private by the SAFE Act.”

The 403 error was the fault of the RSS feed, pointing to a non-existent comic. (Though that should have been a 404 error; is http://ftf-comics.com/?comic=reunion-1 a planned strip that’s not available yet?)

It requires registration of *certain* firearms, not all. Specifically, Title II firearms. That basically means: Machine guns, short-barreled rifles and shotguns, Destructive Devices, Suppressors, and “Any Other Weapon” (which is a confusingly-named category that basically includes spy-type devices and weapons which would reasonably fall outside of the usual weapons rules).

Specifically excluded are antique destructive devices which are unlikely to be used as a weapon, an example of which would be a Punt Gun.

So – This isn’t second registration. For the vast majority of weapons, it constitutes first registration, and is a step towards creating a comprehensive registration database which would be necessary to enact a confiscation.

Anyone else notice Mick’s shirt went from red in last comic to blue in this one? Either he changed shirts in the middle of the restaurant, or he has a shirt that changes colour. If it is the latter, that is fucking awesome and I want a shirt like that.